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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-county-court-financial-limits-no-2-order-2011/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2222",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents County Court (Financial Limits) (No. 2) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-county-court-financial-limits-no-2-order-2011",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) “the Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;\n(b) “legal representative” means a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation (within the meaning of that Act);\n(c) “patents county court” means a county court designated as a patents county court under section 287(1) of the Act; and\n(d) “relevant claim” means a claim for damages or an account of profits which—\n(i) is one to which rule 63.13 of the Civil Procedure Rules applies, but\n(ii) does not relate to matters within the special jurisdiction of a patents county court under section 287(1) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c.48; section 287 was amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, section 15(1) and Schedule 4 Part 1, paragraphs 198 and 200(1) to (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132, as last amended by S.I. 2011/88."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2222/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:56:02.739512+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}